[…] problem. California politicians are experts at wasting money in other ways, such as the supposedly high-speed rail boondoggle that was supposed to cost $33 billion and now has a price tag of $100 […]

[…] problem. California politicians are experts at wasting money in other ways, such as the supposedly high-speed rail boondoggle that was supposed to cost $33 billion and now has a price tag of $100 […]

[…] problem. California politicians are experts at wasting money in other ways, such as the supposedly high-speed rail boondoggle that was supposed to cost $33 billion and now has a price tag of $100 […]

Humor is typical consolation on the road to serfdom. It is part of the standard path to decline. Europeans are daily making fun of the mandatory collectivism they have empowered their bureaucrats with. They make fun, they laugh… And then vote otherwise. Because they cannot resist seeing the voting booth as a redistribution machine to lower incentives, stifled competitiveness, and decline. That seems to be the new American dream.

A good laugh makes it a little easier to capitulate to what seems inevitable.